Artworks

Portrait of Mrs F.

Artwork · Sōtarō Yasui · 1939 · painting

Among the undisputed masterpieces of Sōtarō Yasui (1888–1955), who studied with Asai Chū and at the Académie Julian and found his authentic style only in 1929: the wife of a businessman and collector, herself an essayist, in a Western pose before a brownish-yellow ground dotted with Japanese-style medallions — flatness and decorative motifs blended with Western costume and pose. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 377–378, fig. 450. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.